Game Pak

From WE Computers Museum
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Game Pak
Developer Nintendo
Publisher Nintendo
Systems Game Boy, Game Boy Advance Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Virtual Boy
Released 1983-2008
Added to Museum See computers and consoles by Nintendo

Game Pak is the term for a ROM cartridge used by Nintendo in their cartridge-based video game consoles until the release of the Nintendo DS, after which Nintendo used the term Game Card.

History

The term "Game Pak" was created by the head of Nintendo's advertising department, Gail Tilden.

It was created to replace the term "game cartridge", which was used by Atari products, so as to not remind customers of the video game crash of 1983.

Systems that use Game Paks